Hope is necessary in every condition.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.